Describing his music as “the motion of my cells and freakwencies bouncing back at the world,” Lorin Ashton, aka Bassnectar, began making his own music at age twelve but experienced an epiphany five years ago when he first started getting excited about electronic beats and music. As a testament to…
The Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mexico, aren’t your typical rave crowd. Then again, Boulder-based DJ Royale isn’t your typical DJ. The founder of Dope Recordings (birth name Roy England) used his compassion for other people’s struggles to organize and headline the 2000 fundraiser, Zapatismo, raising over $4,000 to support the Mexican…
You probably haven’t heard of Chance’s End, unless you listen to Boulder’s pirate radio station, KBFR, and caught him “in the van” on Monday, June 16. Here’s your chance to get a good seat on the bandwagon. The Boulder-based producer, also known as Ryan Avery, began the End in 2000…
Prior to February 2002, Kronow played to little fanfare and seemed to be spinning its collective wheels. Enter new frontman James Brennan, a visual and sonic dervish, who gave the band the momentum it sorely needed. With its November 2002 release, Tenfold, Kronow pulls no punches, doling out thickset bass…
NME calls it “schizoid pop.” The bandmembers prefer “electro-pop rockers.” Neither term quite captures the essence of Scotland’s Serial P.O.P. The four-piece unit, made up of brothers George and Tom McFall, Dave Simandi and Stu Bastiman have chemically fused ’80s rhythms, techno beats and indie-rock riffs into a mélange that…
Gravelly vocals and grinding guitars copulate with a rhythm section that sounds like a cheap motel’s headboard banging against a wall, as Reno Divorce delivers the kind of music you’ll need to have a cigarette after. The outfit, formed by singer/guitarist and Florida transplant Brent Loveday, in his native Orlando,…
Originally a three-piece, Pure Drama has evolved into a sextet, with new members Gabriel Ratliffe, David Ferguson, Chris Cardone and Tim Trower rounding out the lush musical landscape founding members Ryan Policky and Becca Gomez established in 1997. The expansion of its lineup isn’t the only sign of progress: From…
Juan Atkins headlines the “NewFoundSound” event at Maximillian’s this week, which is a bit paradoxical: Considered the Godfather of Techno and a pioneer of today’s Detroit sound, he’s been producing records for nearly twenty years. Under his real name or one of his aliases (such as Modal500, Infiniti or Cybotron),…
House freaks have been following the career of DJ Garth since 1991, when he caused a minor earthquake in San Francisco’s dance scene with his “feeling over formula” philosophy. The shock waves rippled again in 1994, when Garth acquired a custom-designed Turbo-sound rig from his native U.K., and again in…
The band calls it “trailer-park jazz,” while a reviewer once referred to it as “cinematic Americana.” Either way, the experimental music of County Road X is finding an audience, one that’s grown steadily with each performance. Influences as diverse as Afro pop, chamber jazz and Radiohead, among others, swirl together…
Just because you’re all grown up doesn’t mean you have to stop loving the circus, especially this one: The Sensory Circus makes its debut on Thursday, May 8, at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom. A festival of sight and sound, this show features eclectic visual art pieces from locals Jerry Simpson, Mark…
Jill Stevenson might look young (she is) and innocent, but get her on stage with her band, and the trio will tear through its set with a verve and vigor that’s anything but tame. Bassist Tex and drummer Matt round out an aggressive rock sound that recalls a bold Michelle…
From learning piano at age four to playing in punk and indie bands in high school, DJ Sage has always had her hands in music. The native of Northern Ireland has become a queen of drum and bass, and hit after hit emanates from her Phylum Recordings label and its…
With a third album, Deep Throat, in production, the members of Nixon Grin are proving that they don’t really care if much of Denver snubs them. The four-piece began playing up and down the Front Range in 1999, bringing its pop sensibility and solid, radio-ready tunes to stages of varying…
Some people have to have it all. Take singer Corey Taylor and guitarist Jim Root. As members of Slipknot, the two enjoyed worldwide success when their Des Moines, Iowa, bar band was transformed into a tour headliner seemingly overnight. But before they became masked metal mavens, they played together in…
Crisp and crunchy, Aggressive Persuasion is easily the most exciting thing to come out of Pueblo since….well, since anything. Raw, hungry, and young enough for half the band to be graduating from high school, the force of AP has moved like a wrecking ball through Denver’s heavy music scene and…
Feeling a little randy? You’re not alone: Kinda Kinky, a saucy new CD released by Ursula 1000 on Thievery Corporation’s Eighteenth Street Lounge label, is being embraced by DJs and beat freaks the world over. A New Yorker by way of Miami, Ursula infuses lounge, ’60s pop and Latin with…
Most bands are not popular before they’ve played their first real show. But most bands aren’t Ion. The project started as a collaboration between Switchpin’s Noe De’Leon and Blister66’s Joe Sego, and caught the attention of Todd Schlafer, who was still in Los Angeles following the demise of his band,…
Dave Audé is an electronica storm, mixing, producing and touring in a nonstop whirlwind. A full-fledged MIDI professor at the Los Angeles-based Recording Workshop by age 22, he developed an interest in house music that led to a partnership with Steve Levy, owner of the club Truth. While working with…
Thisclose to international success, DJ Etain already has a South African tour planned for spring — which means an interruption in her resident club duties at the Castle and the Underground. Breaking away from traditional teenage activities, like school, to sneak into nightspots and explore music, the prodigal DJ/producer developed…
A DJ for more than ten years, Kimball Collins has a unique production style that makes the longest club set feel like a single, flowing unit. Collins, who hails from Orlando, sealed his reputation with a five-year residency at the legendary Beacham Theatre in the early ’90s, staking a claim…
Fans of Breathing Eve’s guitar-driven mood rock were disappointed when the outfit called it quits in 2001, as the move seemed premature for a promising band still finding its sound. Apparently, guitarist Chad Lindberg, bassist Chris Calloway and drummer Katie Aikens agreed: The trio picked up songstress Heather Ballew and…
